SFX

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SCI-FACT! The Tiptons also wrote the last Deep Space Nine comic series Fool’s Gold, published by IDW in 2010. DEEP SPACE NINE’S FIRST foray into comics in a decade, new IDW mini-series Too Long A Sacrifice grew out of its writers David and Scott Tipt

The Writer

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All fiction is speculative to some extent, posing a “what-if” question, which serves as the premise and drives the plot. But for fantasy author Kij Johnson, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Award, the specific genre of speculative fiction adds its

Guernica Magazine

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The award-winning writer on editing his first anthology, horror versus sci-fi, and the American tradition of voter suppression. The post Victor LaValle: Imagine Downton Abbey, but with Smells appeared first on Guernica.

Home Cinema Choice

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Helping fill gaps between recent seasons of Star Trek shows, these nine in-continuity shorts let their makers revisit fan-fave characters and stretch beyond the usual restrictions of the franchise. Which means in addition to shorts devoted to Saru an

NPR

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Literary pun purveyor Tom Gauld turns his pen to the foibles of science (and science fiction) in his new comic collection Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, inspired by his scientist grandfather.

SFX

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GIVEN THAT THE FRANCHISE has birthed eight television series and 13 films, it’s perhaps surprising that (barring a couple of recent shorts) Star Trek has only boldly gone into the world of animation once – way back in 1973 with Star Trek: The Animate

The Atlantic

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Herman Melville, born 200 years ago next month, had some timeless advice: If the sweltering heat of July is giving you a damp, drizzly November in your soul, it is high time to get to sea, even if it’s just within the pages of a book. As Lena Lenček

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 275 pages | Hardback/ebook Editor Desirina Boskovich Publisher Abrams Image As is often the case with such things, the subtitle to this eccentric collection – The Secret History Of Science Fiction And Fantasy – is arguably a little

NPR

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Bishakh Som's new comics collection is uncanny and hard to categorize — science-fictiony, mythic and humanistic, without making any particular assumptions about where humans as a species are going.

Popular Science

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In the hands of a science fiction writer, each discovery of a physical phenomenon, planetary body, or biological quirk offers inspiration for imaginary worlds of strange beauty. These four exceptional graphic novels show us alternate realities and gi

Home Cinema Choice

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'In a sense I feel I have been preparing to shoot Star Trek: Picard for over 30 years,' confides Sir Patrick Stewart. 'There was a quality, a feeling I had about him from the very beginning which was unlike any acting experience I’ve had before. Beli

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! (Paperback 12 January) Publisher IDW Comics Writer Scott and David Tipton Artist Greg Scott ISSUES 1-4 This four-part IDW mini-series feels like discovering that an extra episode of Deep Space Nine was filmed and left in the back of

TechLife News

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Have you wondered how Captain America survived being in a state of suspended animation, if apes could grow as large as King Kong and why so many of the aliens in “Star Trek” look humanoid? It’s those kinds of questions that Mohamed Noor, a biology pr

The Christian Science Monitor

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Science fiction writers, gazing into the future, envision space-based cargo movers and robots that may eliminate the need for humans to work.

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Comics/Young Animal Writer NK Jemisin Artist Jamal Campbell ISSUES 1-3 For a series largely set in the furthest reaches of space, Green Lantern rarely dabbles in the harder side of science fiction – which is what makes

Home Cinema Choice

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This is the show fans of the Enterprise NCC-1701-D have been waiting for. From its opening scene, it’s clear we’re back in the company of old friends. Set 20 years after Star Trek: Nemesis, Jean-Luc, now retired, is still haunted by Data’s sacrificia

Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition

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The last time the world saw Patrick Stewart’s legendary Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard on screens was almost 20 years ago in dismal Next Gen movie Nemesis. Now, hot on the heels of resurgent series Star Trek: Discovery, Picard has been given a sho

Emmy Magazine

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If you’re going to launch an animated comedy spinoff of Star Trek, you couldn’t ask for a better creator than Mike McMahan, the Emmy-winning former head writer of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty and the cocreator of Hulu’s new sci-fi hit Solar Opposites.

SFX

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SCI-FACT! Fontana also wrote a Star Trek novel, 1989’s Vulcan’s Glory, set in the Pike/Spock era. “WE WEREN’T TRYING TO DO the hardware, we weren’t trying to do the science fiction gimmicks, the flash,” remembered Star Trek writer and story editor Do

Literary Hub

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In his poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asked, “What happens to a dream deferred?” It was a prophetic inquiry, one that questioned a society in which Black people continually faced racial injustice, even though the nation’s ideals were supposedly predi

SFX

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Star Trek, as I’ve said before, is what brought me to the world of SFX. Way, way back in the days when a group of sci-fi fans in Edinburgh watched imported video cassettes of new episodes – including the Voyager pilot in fancy NTSC black and white co

Chicago Tribune

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FLOSSMOOR, Ill. - Not long after Nnedi Okorafor finished her freshman year at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1993, she came home to Flossmoor and played tennis. She played daily, she played for hours. That had always been the plan. She ha

Apple Magazine

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Have you wondered how Captain America survived being in a state of suspended animation, if apes could grow as large as King Kong and why so many of the aliens in “Star Trek” look humanoid? It’s those kinds of questions that Mohamed Noor, a biology pr

Writing Magazine

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US small press Sliced Up is looking for short stories involving menopause for a horror fiction anthology, Bodies Full of Burning: An Anthology of Menopause-Themed Horror. Stories, 1,000-4,000 words, must include menopause as the main plot point. Subm

Writing Magazine

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Tiny Fox Press like to publish ‘engaging stories needing a great home’, usually commercial fiction, SF/fantasy, MG/YA in all genres, military and ‘the bizarre’. Currently open to submissions of novels, over 20,000 words but full length preferred, the

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 2019 | 15 | Blu-ray/DVD Showrunner Alex Kurtzman Cast Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anson Mount, Michelle Yeoh On one level, season two of Discovery feels like an elaborate plot to extricate the series from the continuity minefi

Literary Hub

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It’s turning out to be a great year for speculative fiction in translation (SFT). And though as of this writing (June), I’ve already catalogued 51 speculative novels or collections and 30 short stories. Compare this to the end of 2017, when we had a

Popular Mechanics South Africa

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The Big Bang creates the universe, the result of the destabilisation of Omega particles. Ancient humanoids seed DNA throughout the galaxy, creating humans, Vulcans, Klingons, and all other humanoid species. A species of dinosaur related to the Hadros

Writing Magazine

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For many of us, 2020 is not a year that we’re going to recall with a great deal of fondness – in fact, I’ll bet that most people will be pretty glad to see this one vanish in the rear-view mirror. But as one year ends another begins, and with that co

Literary Hub

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Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling) dough that will never become bread. Each “rise” is celebrated but ephemeral, exi